For those suffering from depression, each day can feel like a new battle - and there is rarely only one symptom. In reality, depression affects everyone differently and can manifest in symptoms or feelings that are not always discussed. On Twitter, M Molly Backes, author of The Princess of Iowa, highlighted an important but often-overlooked symptom of depression, which she referred to as the “impossible task” - and it’s resonating with thousands of people.

Jessica Gimeno lives with bipolar disorder and wants to expand the discourse around mental health. It's not enough to just receive a diagnosis, she says, people have to learn to live with depression and other mental health issues. In her talk, she shares the techniques she's learned to help her get stuff done while depressed.

Entrepreneurship takes an emotional toll on founders and the people close to them. Depression, fear, and anxiety can quickly take hold and become unmanageable. Here are three things entrepreneurs must remember when confronting these challenges.

Catherine Morgan interviews Rich Gallagher, LMFT for the first episode of The Depression Discussions™: The Conversations We Need to Keep Having. Rich is a licensed psychotherapist, while Catherine just plays one with her career transition and solo consultant clients. Rich shares what he has seen work for clients with depression and anxiety in his more than 10 years in practice.

In his “The Myth of Sisyphus” essay, French philosopher Albert Camus calls suicide “the only serious philosophical problem.” Philosophy’s search for meaning in life comes to a sharp halt when life is deemed unlivable. And like many gravely serious problems, suicide is one we’d rather not talk about.

Some of the everyday triggers for depression and anxiety could be hiding in your bathroom cabinet, kitchen cupboards, and what you eat for breakfast. Certified psychiatrist, MIT cognitive neuroscientist and researcher Kelly Brogan discusses why treating depression may be simpler than you think, and how to reclaim your health, starting today.

It was a beautiful summer day; the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and here I was, sitting on the back porch, having returned home early from the office. I didn’t have sunshine and rainbows on my mind, far from it — I was devastated about how far I’d fallen. I thought I was a complete failure, worse than worthless, an embarrassment to my family and friends. Surely, when my secret was revealed, everyone would laugh behind my back. My business was running out of money and I had no clue how to save it.

Like most of you, I read the news about these suicides this past week with sadness. I was a fan of both Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. It felt especially scary for those of us that have suffered from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

Suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday by the CDC. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30%, the government report finds.

New research suggests a radically simple way to approach your mind. Everybody ruminates: It’s that familiar pattern of chewing over your thoughts and your feelings about them. For people with depression, it takes a turn toward the pathological: The spiral that comes from feeling bad about feeling bad (about feeling bad!) can be immobilizing. But a new therapeutic approach — called metacognitive therapy (MCT) — targets that process with Zen-like deftness, and it’s been shown to dramatically reduce clinical depression. It’s also useful to anyone who’s felt run over by an uncontrollable train of negative thoughts.

Depression is a very serious mental illness that often goes unnoticed for years. People with concealed depression are battling demons within themselves all on their own. They are not sharing their struggles and do not want to burden those around them.

Most mornings as I leave the Y after my swim and shower, I cross paths with a coterie of toddlers entering with their caregivers for a kid-oriented activity. I can’t resist saying hello, requesting a high-five, and wishing them a fun time. I leave the Y grinning from ear to ear, uplifted not just by my own workout but even more so by my interaction with these darling representatives of the next generation.

What a great way to start the day!

When I told a fellow swimmer about this experience and mentioned that I was writing a column on the health benefits of positive emotions, she asked, “What do you do about people who are always negative?” She was referring to her parents, whose chronic negativity seems to drag everyone down and make family visits extremely unpleasant.

Depression isn’t the saddest person in the room. Quite contrary actually, depression sometimes is the person you would have never expected. Along with trying to convince you they’re happy, they’re trying to convince themselves.

Depression isn’t that melancholy person, you don’t want to be around. Oftentimes, it’s the person everyone loves because of the light they bring to a room is so bright but that’s only because they know darkness.

I guess you could say from the outside looking in, I had it all. The career, the house, a loving husband, beautiful healthy kids, the M Sport BMW, the spa membership, and the audience (including you) to get affirmation of my "perfect" and envious lifestyle on a daily basis.

The problem was that it was all a facade. I was actually in a deep, dark depression that was progressively getting worse and didn't know it until I was committed to a mental hospital on December 14, 2016.